Manufacturing employment and GDP by state, 2013

Manufacturing share of total employment Manufacturing GDP ($ billions) Manufacturing share of state GDP
UNITED STATES* 8.8% $2,079.5 12.5%
NORTHEAST 7.3% $284.8 8.4%
  New England 8.6% $93.6 10.4%
    Connecticut 9.9% $27.8 11.2%
    Maine 8.4% $5.7 10.4%
    Massachusetts 7.5% $45.1 10.1%
    New Hampshire 10.3% $7.7 11.4%
    Rhode Island 8.5% $4.1 7.7%
    Vermont 10.3% $3.2 10.9%
  Middle Atlantic 6.8% $191.2 7.7%
    New Jersey 6.2% $45.9 8.5%
    New York 5.1% $67.9 5.2%
    Pennsylvania 9.8% $77.4 12.0%
MIDWEST 12.3% $584.9 17.1%
  East North Central 13.1% $432.1 18.6%
    Illinois 10.0% $101.3 14.1%
    Indiana 16.8% $95.3 30.1%
    Michigan 13.5% $82.3 19.0%
    Ohio 12.6% $99.8 17.7%
    Wisconsin 16.3% $53.4 18.9%
  West North Central 10.7% $152.8 13.8%
    Iowa 14.0% $28.4 17.1%
    Kansas 11.9% $22.9 15.9%
    Minnesota 11.1% $43.7 14.0%
    Missouri 9.2% $36.3 13.1%
    Nebraska 9.8% $14.0 12.7%
    North Dakota 5.7% $3.3 5.8%
    South Dakota 10.0% $4.2 9.1%
SOUTH 8.1% $752.6 12.9%
  South Atlantic 6.8% $296.4 10.0%
    Delaware 5.9% $4.5 7.3%
    District of Columbia** 0.1% $0.2 0.2%
    Florida 4.2% $39.6 4.9%
    Georgia 8.9% $52.5 11.5%
    Maryland 4.1% $19.9 5.8%
    North Carolina 10.9% $98.3 20.9%
    South Carolina 11.8% $31.8 17.3%
    Virginia 6.1% $42.3 9.4%
    West Virginia 6.4% $7.2 9.7%
  East South Central 12.3% $128.7 16.7%
    Alabama** 13.1% $34.4 17.8%
    Kentucky 12.4% $33.6 18.3%
    Mississippi 12.3% $15.1 14.4%
    Tennessee 11.6% $45.7 15.9%
  West South Central 8.2% $327.5 15.6%
    Arkansas 12.9% $16.6 13.4%
    Louisiana 7.4% $59.3 23.4%
    Oklahoma** 8.4% $18.3 10.1%
    Texas 7.8% $233.2 15.2%
WEST 7.6% $457.2 11.3%
  Mountain 5.9% $91.0 8.3%
    Arizona 6.2% $24.0 8.6%
    Colorado 5.6% $21.6 7.3%
    Idaho 9.4% $7.6 12.2%
    Montana 4.1% $2.9 6.7%
    Nevada 3.4% $5.8 4.4%
    New Mexico 3.6% $5.6 6.1%
    Utah 9.2% $21.0 14.9%
    Wyoming 3.3% $2.4 5.3%
  Pacific 8.4% $366.2 12.4%
    Alaska 4.4% $1.8 3.0%
    California 8.3% $239.0 10.9%
    Hawaii 2.2% $1.3 1.8%
    Oregon 10.4% $65.4 29.8%
    Washington 9.6% $58.8 14.4%

*The total represents the sum of states and the District of Columbia and differs slightly from total national employment as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014b)

**Nonseasonally adjusted data are used for Alabama, the District of Columbia, and Oklahoma

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014c), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2014b), and author's analysis

View the underlying data on epi.org.